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The seamy side of swing bowling: English cricket facesanother humiliating test match this week, but could some long-forgottenresearch restore its flagging fortunes?

Mars on a shoestring: Undeterred by huge cuts in expenditure on space exploration, the world’s planetary scientists are planning missions to Mars well into the next century

Can algae cool the planet?

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News

West sinks Bangladesh flood plan

Gathering bugs in May

Rock on, but mind your spine

Genetic screening should be kept in the family

‘Hot’ food paper left out in the cold

Clinton auctions airwaves in sale of the century

Ozone hole ‘innocent’ of Chile’s ills

Foreign sea life floods through the Golden Gate

Vaccine promises safer eggs

Lead paint poisons Paris children

Last stand for solitary marron

Race to the finish for Brazil’s wild horses

Snapshot survey captures Java’s shy rhino at home

The big sleeplessness epidemic

Computing tops Britain’s career league

Liberated lungs

Tree thief convicted

Killing cougars

Satellite snaps soggy city

Mammoth meal

Acid conflict

Certified bananas

Linguistics on trial: Forensic scientists have fiercely condemned a technique used in court to show that confessions have been tampered with

Science: Could time run backwards?

Science: Plants provide clues to dinosaurs’ demise

Science: Love potion perks up a panicky penis

Science: ‘Claws’ worms its way out of the fossil record

Science: Are solar neutrions quick-change artists?

Science: Alzheimer’s gene ‘the most important ever found’

Technology

Technology: Flying glass to foil Serbian snipers

Technology

Technology: How cash machines will recognise you when you’re drunk

Technology

Technology: New prospects surface for gold-diggers

Technology

Technology: Pressure mounts to end Pisa’s decline

Technology

Technology: Flat out for the speaker of the future?

Technology

Technology: Making mice a little more human

Opinion

Queensland moves into space

Comment: Time to die?

Comment: Learning from Ol’ Man River

Features

The seamy side of swing bowling: English cricket facesanother humiliating test match this week, but could some long-forgottenresearch restore its flagging fortunes?

Mars on a shoestring: Undeterred by huge cuts in expenditure on space exploration, the world’s planetary scientists are planning missions to Mars well into the next century

Can algae cool the planet?

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Review: Dispathes from cosmology’s front line

Review: All at sea: lessons in responsiblity

Review: Into the mystic

Review: The frustrated user always knows better than the engineer

Review: Still life with HIV

Review: Beyond the grave lies a condition called baldness

Forum: Fetid air over Warren Spring – William Bown peers under the public fig leaves of government double-dealing

Forum: A cluster of thoughts – Chris Goy wonders if togetherness is just a quaint sentiment or a universal principle

Forum: Driving tests for mahouts – Colin Tudge on Asia’s working elephants – and how to get the best out of them

Thistle Diary: More hot potatoes and follies – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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